Free Tonight: Ravel's Trio at Jessen Auditorium

Tonight at Jessen Auditorium in Homer Rainey Hall, pianist Richard Dowling will perform French composer Maurice Ravel's Trio for piano, violin, and cello, accompanied by Miró String Quartet first violinist Daniel Ching and cellist Amy Levine of the Laurel Piano Trio. This is the first time this version of Trio has been performed, so you don't want to miss it.

This is the second installment of the Harry Ransom Center's Music From the Collections series. Before the performance, Dowling will give a brief lecture, pulling from his doctoral dissertation on the piece, written at The University of Texas at Austin 18 years ago. Dowling discovered dramatic differences between the French edition of the piece (1915) and Ravel's original manuscript (1914). The performance will be true to this manuscript, thanks to the Ransom Center's ownership of the original and Dowling's dedication to restoring it.

Unable to attend? The center is offering a live webcast of the event. If you'd like to hear more about Dowling's dissertation, Ravel, and what to expect tonight, you can listen to an interview he gave to KUT's John Aielli. We recommend watching some of the French edition performed, then comparing notes this evening with Dowling's version.